On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Dave Airlie wrote:
> well it should work for the PMAD and I've got a version for the VAX that
> splits off from my one, the VAX uses a similiar wiring as the DS5000/200,
> I've been waiting for the LANCE core to be separated out a lot of people
> have talked about it and I hear for 2.5 maybe someone is actually going to
> do it ...
Well, the core seems to be already separated -- see drivers/net/7990.c.
I haven't yet checked how suitable it is and many front-end drivers use it
already.
For the I/O ASIC front-end I'm going to check if the ASIC is capable of
mapping the LANCE more sensibly before starting any further work. The
current configuration is a major loss, doubling the CPU's work and I can't
see any reasonable explanation for such a setup.
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